William Mulock

Sir William MulockPCKCMGMPQCLL.D (19 January1843 – 1 October1944) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, educator, farmer, politician, judge, and philanthropist. He served as Postmaster-General, Canada's first Minister of Labour, and was the driving force in the federation of the University of Toronto. He retired from politics at age 62 because ill health required him to be less active, but subsequently became Chief Justice of Ontario, retiring at age 93, and Chancellor of the University of Toronto from 1924 until his death at age 101.

Toronto Star, 30 November 1928, reported in Columbo, John Robert (2000). Famous Lasting Words: Great Canadian Quotations. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre. p. 571.

I'm still at work with my hand to the plough and my face to the future. The shadows of evening … lengthen about me but morning is in my heart. … the testimony I bear is this: that the castle of enchantment is not yet behind me, it is before me still and daily I catch glimpses of its battlements and towers. The best of life is always further on. The real lure is hidden from our eyes, somewhere behind the hills of time.